My field just got a new self fill system...

[tony3]

They are safe if your tank is in hydro, and the system isn't defective. Just think of the thousands of fills every year used with those fill stations and not 1 incident.

[Lohman446]

Hmmm.. let me say that I flash fill my own tanks as do most people I know.

Most people who know high pressure tanks outside of paintball would never think for a moment that they could take the abuse we give them. Diving on them, hitting them iwth noticeable pressure (the paintballs), and flash filling, we abuse the hell out of them. Most people who have never witnessed paintball would, given those scenarios, announce them inherently unsafe to use.

I am surprised by the abuse they do take, and have to say this. Judging by the lack of incidents surrounding the things, I would have to say our uses are safe but I am not qualified to make that determination. From an engineering standpoint our abuse of them is negligently unsafe.

PS - I trade out my tanks every year for new ones as an added safey procedure, none of my tanks are ever uncovered - not that the cover is going to do me much good. All my tanks are carbon wrapped as I think damage may be easier to ascertain adn that supposedly carbon fiber will unravel rather than exploding in a catastrophic failure.